Archive pour la catégorie ‘interactive design’

Bored by a vision of the world dominated by B2B (Business to Business) and B2C (Business to Consumer) that seem for so many people to be the only way to consider human interactions, I would like to start a series of works called H2H: Human to Human.

The first work of the series would be the manhole covered by a used carpet during Paris FIAC (Foire Internationale d’art Contemporain) 2010. I felt compelled by this reversed foot print, drawn by the visitors of this exhibition where art is for sale. I started thinking of an “interaction design” process: every time a foot touches what I consider as an “interaction zone” I would trigger my photo camera. This very simple human driven interaction process takes an external input to connect two actions: stepping/clicking making me the slave of the program. STEP and SHOOT.

After the Dump exhibition at Łaźnia presenting works inspired by the Dump projects made by other artists, I like the idea that I could be inspired back by the resulting artworks and define new projects to be dumped or done.

I thought again about what could be a Dumped project done to be hacked. Thinking also at the same time of the Never Ending Story, Try to make the world more intelligible, even if for you it is totally unintelligible presented by Agnieszka Chojnacka an interesting brilliantly done sound interpretation of the project Black Hole from the Dump. I propose to produce the Never Ending Project as a Dump post written in a way that the reader would be invited, before reading the project, to replace words of the project post by themselves. The description of the project would permanently change and become the result of every participant’s experience. Done at different period of its evolution, this project would open to an unlimited variety of works.

The most difficult thing is to write its structure in a way that would keep consistent the resulting reader-altered proposal.

PS. My previous web work using evolving open text is and what about me? 2 (1996) where we are invited to help rewriting the Genesis first seven days.

The switch is an object that can be put somewhere on a wall at home. You plug radio, TV sets, light, music, and so on … Anything that you or your friends could switch at random as if asking a change would not mean asking for something.

When one leaves a bathroom after a good hot shower, condensation appearing on the mirror at the opening of the door betrays highlights and the difference of temperature of the wall upon which it is hanged.

Public toilet device:
A discrete video camera captures our image whilst we are watching ourselves in the mirror. Our image/silhouette is seized and some water steam appears on the mirror. Our silhouette appears in reserve as if the mirror had kept something of the visit. Behind the mirror, a del screen locally modifies the temperature according to the video image. The mirror can be slightly refrigerated (scrod device of refrigerator). A water steam sprayer, of the type of those associated to fanes reconstitutes the difference of temperature or humidity of air. Condensation will agglomerate on cold areas of the mirror.